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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-07-13, Page 7Miaard's Liniment used by Plweielax Taking a Chance. Lawyer—What evidence have you that he promised to marry you? Girl—What evidence? Why, my face, my form, mei my sweet dieposi- tion] Lawyer—Well, I'll do my best to get a near-sighted bachelor jury. Marriage may be a lottery, but nin times out of ten if a man picks a laser itp is hips own faullqtpp.]Dta�+ 6 S- T [i1 Ili fLl�EA 11l MIWIiESS its G'ERM'AN PSYCHOLOGY, Why It Is That the Teutonic Soldiers Allow Themselvesto Be Slaughtered. ' We have now entered upon the fourth month of the battle of Verdun, -es es- with new frantic efforts on the part of the Germans to. biieak our defence. But they have made no important progress since the end of February, when the suddenness and secretly ac-. cumulated power of the blow gained them a few miles. They have even here and there ldst ground, and the Initiative of the fight has repeatedly passed on our side. A neutralgent- leman who -has just come back from the invaded departments, where he had been engaged for a year on re- lief work, told the a month ago that. 'he had seen the whole slow and enor- mous preparation of the attack. In January and February the Gorman officers with whom his work brought him in daily contact were constantly speaking of the coming coup as if no. doubt of success could be entertained, writes Andre Chevrilton, in' Country Life. Nothing, said my friend, who had learned to know them well, was more significant than their reticence as to Verdun during the last weeks of his stay with them. The subject ,/ had become taboo. And yet they still launch their mas- sive attacks, in which their men come shoulder to shoulder, to fall in long, �,�;� rapidly increasing heaps under the fire of our machine-guns. If one had not heard from the Russian side as will as from our front of German prisoners who were taken still smell- ing of ether, and who confessed to having been under a special diet be- fore being thus hurled in serried ranks—twelve deep to the yard—to butchery, one would not know which to admire most ; the blind, absolute devotedness of those men, or the in- domitable temper of those French soldiers who were supposed to have more elan than staying power, and who manage to find shelter in the craters that have been dug by a ter- rific Trommel Feuer , and there, in little packs, of survivors or isolated, with what is left of machine-guns, most of the protective wire being wiped out, succeed in stopping the thick waves of the advancing enemy. from the distinction between classes which prevails in other countries. In England, for instance, the old rural social principle that " one should know one's betters " is tempered by the re- ligious principle that a man is per- sonally responsible to God for all his acts, that his inner self cannot be surrendered. No liberty with it, no attempt to compel his conscience, no slight to his honor, whether from his equals or his betters, should be tolera- ted. Kipling's story, " His Private Honour," gives the precise shade of the feeling. Youcan also see it in " Richard Feverel;' when the oldling- lish farmer resolutely demands as his right an apology from the squire's son. How far removed'- from this proud and individualistic idea is the, Hun conception of heirarchy the in- cidents of Zabern have taught us. Was it not in connection with these incidents that a member of the British Cabinet said " In this country the honour of the lord is exactly on the same footing as that, of a costermon- of her enemy that peace would be for him but breathing time till he felt strong enough for ".`new and pro- bably stronger aggression—that if she stopped before the monster's teeth are broken, sooner me. later it would mean death for her.''�She also• knows that the odds are now against him, that at the game he is playing he cannot outlast the Allies. That knowledge steels the mother heart to the horror. ger"?. What Germans Call 'Heroism. A . CAUSE OF INDIGESTION People Who Complain of This Trouble Usually Are *Thin Blooded. Thin blooded people usually have stomach trouble. Theyseldom recog- "Body and soul " they belong to their Kaiser. He knows what he can exact from thein. At Dinant and. Aerschot it was to open fire with machine-guns in the market place, be- fore the shrieking women, on a crowd of men, after wiring them in, At Verdun it is to march in continuous rows, line behind line, over the dead heaps of those that went before them against the fire that mows them down. On the part of the soldiers this may be called heroism. Our own men go more quietly to what they know is certain death ; they are not carried on by the impetus of a solid human mass in which those who are behind Strength of the German. All the essential difference between the two peoples is to be seen in the two sides of such a picture. The French are individualists ; the value of the nation is that of the individ- uals. Hence their achievement in air craft and their rapid success' in the noble art ; hence also the general tendency of our school of tactics, which, leaning on national psychology, 'favours the ordre disperse and leaves as much as possible to the judgment 111111... and enterprise of each man. The .gtrength of the German is in the or- ganized herd. Their' attacks remind producing the German defence in front one of the charge of the buffaloes of it. In a war which puts a terrific which have closed together to stamp strain on human energy, at a time the tiger under foot. A friend who when men are generally sent to the back only for a spell of rest, German soldiers had been set by their leaders to the stupendous extra task of dig- ging two complete networks of trench- es for the object of 'methodically re- hearsing a possible attack. To those who know what such work means and the awful drudgery of it, the fact is amazing. nize the fact that thin blood is the cause of the trouble, but it is. In. fact thin,_impure blood is the most common cause of stomach trouble : it affects the digestion very quickly. The glands that furnish the digestive fluid are diminishpd.in their. activity ; the stomach muscles are weakened, and there is a loss of nerve force. In this state of health nothing will more quickly restore the appetite, the diges- tion and normal nutrition than good rich, red blood. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills act directly on the blood, making it rich and red, and this enriched blood strengthens weak nerves, stimulates tired muscles and awakens the normal activity of the glands that supply the digestive fluids. The first sign of im- proving health is an improved appe- tite, and soon the effect of these blood making pills is evident throughout the system. You find that what you eat does not distress,you, and that you'are strong and vigorous instead of irrit- able and listless. This is proved by the case of Mrs. J. Harris, Gerrard St., Toronto, who says : " About three years ago I was seized with a severe attack of indigestion and vomiting. My food seemed to turn sour as soon as I ate it, and I would turn so deadly sick that sometimes I would fall on the GREAT BRITAIN'S PRIME CONDITION' JOIN BULL'S REMARKABLE FIN- ANCIAL POSITION. Lending to Russia,' France, Italy and Serbia, and Supporting Belgium. John Hart, political economist and director of "London Opinion " Cor- poration, who has just arrived in the United States, gives a lucid.explana- tion of the financial conditions of Great Britain. He. says : ". Notwithstanding the heavy ex- penditure of Great Britain since the outbreak' of the war, and the heavy drafts upon the public, the debt of Great Britain to -day is only about one-half of what it was per capita at the end of the Napoleonic War. In 1816, just after the Battle of Water- loo, the public debt per capita was £48. That amount in proportion to the in- come of the country at that time, com- pared with the income of the present day, represented a debt of £120 per head. In August, 1914, the public debt was £14 per capita, and every one thousand millions of pound sterl- ing issued since represents £20 per capita ; so that the present day debt of Britain isnot much more than 50% of the equivalent debt at the end of the Napoleonic War. A Creditor Nation. " It should be borne in mind that England is financing France, Italy, Russia and Serbia in the present war, and is carrying the entire charge of Belgium. The money so employed is loaned to these nations so that Eng- land is still largely a creditor nation. The financial condition of Great Bri- tain at this advanced period of the war is most remarkable. The mar- kets are all buoyant, the minimum re - push those who are in front without floor after vomiting. I tried a lot of striation on sales of stocks is being feeling the immediate risk. I will home remedies, but they did not help removed, and as they reach a proper me. Then I went to a doctor who gave level as regards the value of money' give two recent instances of the of the sheer spirit me some powders, but they seemed ac- to -day (due to'war conditions), there curious passivity, tually to make me worse instead of is a tremendous amount of money for. of obedience that often goes with Ger- better. This went on for nearly two investment. A large part of the Lashing a Lazy Liver 1 GERMAN PEOPLE with pills may give temporary relief—but the pill habit is not a health habit. It will put the liver out of business in time- and then everything else goes out of business. Get the health habit by eating Shredded Wheat Biscuit. the ideal hot -weather food, which contains more digestible,. brain -making, muscle -build- ing material than beefsteak or eggs. The tasty, delicious crispness of the baked wheat gives palate joy and stomach comfort.. It supplies the maximum of nutriment in smallest bulk, and its daily use keeps the bowels healthy and active. For breakfast with milk or cream, or for any meal with fresh fruits. Made in Canada man heroism, and by which men are monthsand by that time my stomach money whereby England is financing changed 'into tools=woriilerful tools was i , n such a weak state that I could herself and other nations is the pro - to be used for good or had—and to not keep down a drink of water, and be thrown wholesale into the furnace, I was wasted to a skeleton and felt if waste, as sometimes happens, pays that life was not worth living:' I was —however so little. not married at this time, and one Sun - In Champagne some of our aviators dayevening on the way to church 'with noticed behind the German line and my intended husband I was taken with at a safe distance from our guns a bad spell on the street. He took me strange activities of the enemy. They to a drug store where the clerk fixed seemed to be fighting between them- tip something to take, and my intended selves over a network of lines which got me a box of Dr. Williams' Pink in no way connected with the rest of Pills. By the end of the first week I responsible for a tremendous amount the defence. Photographs were taken could feel some improvement from the .of money being kept at home which tutlons. year, after searching seven hours fo and use of the Pills, and I gladly c would otherwise rt, my trenches. perceived one of the Awe systems to enjoying the best of health. These saved his life in Marblehead waters sent to our son, who is a soldier. be an exact copy of a particularly Pills are now my standby and I tell all " Strange as it may sound, an last fall. " As far as I am concerned, I do no strong French labyrinth, the other re- my friends what they did for me." enormous portion of the money raised Ties were found bound to the tracks know whether I shall require ..,ti -,u You can get Dr. Williams' Pink Pills by the British ,Government has been of the New York Central main line treatment this year. My wife wil from any dealer in medicine or by mail duo to advertising. For the first time at Lyons, N.Y., over which trains certainly not require it, as she is 2 t 60 cents a box or six boxes for pounds ACROSS THE BORDER WHAT IS GOING ON OVER IN THE STATES. Latest Happenings in Big Republic Condensed for Busy Readers. All the shops at the State peniten- tiary, at Frankfort, Ky., were de- stroyed by fire. Fifteen hunhdred Sioux Indians in South Dakota have offered to enlist for service in Mexico. Thirty Chinese citizens of Tuscon, Ariz., have formed a company of home guards as a protection c4gainst Mexican raiders. This year the United States will yield 125,000 divorces, the Rev. F. M. Moody, of Chicago, told President Wilson, at Washington. Twelve Brooklyn physicians are to be prosecuted as a result of a recent crusade for alleged negligence in re ARE SHORT OF FOOD ETTE'R' PUBLISHED IN SOCIAL- IST NEWSPAPER. Four Women Went to Jail Because They Endeavored to Get Potatoes. Pour women, says, Vorwarts, the leading German Socialist organ, the wives of soldiers at the front, were present with a multitude of other women . in the large market hall in. Dresden, where they were looking for potatoes, the sale of which had been advertised. There was a bad short- age 'of potatoes all that week. All four women declared that they had no potatoes for a long time, One of them had six children. In the' crowd there was frightful crushing and excitement. The in- spector, provoked by one of the four women, gave her a box on the ear. After hours of waiting without being able to obtain any potatoes, about 80 women set off for the Rathaus, the four at their head. On the street they were stopped by [gendarmes and ordered to disperse. The four doclin-1' ed, and were arrested. One of them had her'arms to twisted back by a l gendarme as to cause her great pain. The four were accused of having re -1 sisted lawful authority. They were convicted of this offence, and of lib- erating other women from the clutch- es of the police, and sentenced to seven weeks' imprisonment. The court remarked that the punishment was a very lenient one for so grave an offence. A Meal Soup Breakfast. ceeds of the sale of American sewn- porting births of children within ten ties, made by private holders to the days. British Government, which is being Chicago packing houses have closed used as it is collected. Another large contracts with the army quarter - The War Committee for Coffee and Tea lately suggested that as these commodities were very dear and scarce it might be well if Germans resorted to. the old fashion of a meal soup breakfast with a little fat in it. Vorwarts now publishes a letter in Which the writer points out aspara- gus and butter also make a very ad- mirable breakfast, but the difficulty about them is that they are unob- tainable, nearly as unobtainable as "meal and fat." The writer pro- coeds : " As cards for ink have not yet been issued, I suppose I may write. I like meal soup, but where am I to get th part is derived from the enormous master there for a monthly supply of meal for my family of four persons amount of profit being made Sy manu- 1,6000,000 pounds of meat for the It is a problem, and if the potatoe facturers of war supplies. Then a -army. did not help me out I con no longe gain, the restriction imposed by the Government on the investment of Bri- tish capital outside of the country is In his will as probated, John Black, say 'Prost Idalilzeit' As to meat a retired Baltimore financier, who Since October 16-I don't wish to g, died recently, gives more than $276, - back further—there has only been k 000 to religious and educational insti- pound of bacon in my house. Thi; revealed two distinct and elabor- find investment a- Miss Rose Pitonof, of Dorchester,- . ife mana';ed to secure twi ate system`s of tr 1 The puzzle Nuking them until every symptom of broad. Mass., was married to Dr. Frederick pounds of `back fat.' We kept om was solved when an officer suddenly the trouble was gone, and I was again Benefits of Advertising Weene, a dentist of Somerville. She pound for ourselves ; the other W. saw some of the battlefields of the Marne before the dead were buried told me that even in death this dif- ference between the temper off' the two races is to be seen. The French dead, he said, were scattered; here and there like poppies in a cornfield (this was at the beginning of. the war, when the French army still wore the tradi- tional red trousers) : the Germans lay in grey heaps like inanimate swarms. This gregarious feature of the enemy struck our men in the very first battles of the campaign. " We got sick with killing them," a wound- ed zouave who was just back from Charleroi told me. " But the more of them you killed the thicker they came. they were like ants,a , tie vie Ants Y continuous tide of ants Hun Conception of Hierachy. The other and no less important element in their psychology is, of course, their absolute and mechanical discipline -a discipline which puts the herd into the hands of the leader, like a several hundred, thousand or million horse -power, or rather " man- power" engine, to be hurled at his pleasure in this or that direction. This discipline is not, as with us, a mere necessity of war. It is founded firstly on the idea of caste (we are very much struck in France by the fact that, in spite of their enormous losses in officers, they still' avoid mak- ing lieutenants of their sergeants and Feldwebels), an idea very different The Curtain Fire. The second instance is, perhaps, more significant. An officer who had come on lead from his post in the neighborhood of La Ferine Navarin was telling us the peculiar method which the Hun used to retake, two months ago; a certain length of that position. On both sides the usual rule for an attack is to cover for some hours with "Trommel Feuer " the line which you want to conquer, and when the moment for the rush comes to increase the range, in order to avoid killing your own people as they approach the enemy, thus creat- ing at the Same time a curtain lime which cuts off the position from pos- sible reinforcements. As long as the "Trommel Feuer is over them the assailed party remain buried in their holes, but as soon as the range is changed and they hear the shells bursting in their rear they know that the onslaught is coining, and, leaping out of their dug -outs, begin. to take aim with rifles and machine-guns. Well, what the Germans' did in this particular attack was simply not to increase their range. They kept their --ea troops—a very dense" formation—un- The Fine • FlavGuraa= the delicate taste of malted barley blended with the sweets of whole wheat— is sufficient reason in itself for the wonderful popular- ity of Grape=Nuts FOOD But It is more than de- licious—it is the finest kind of concentrated nour- ishment to thoroughly sus- tain body and brain tissue —a toed that benefits users remarkably. A short trial proves "There's a Reason" Sold by Grocers everywhere. , Canadian PosLum Cereal Co., Ltd.; Windsor, Ont • -a31�k b in history the British Government has esuardtr the Massachusetts National d lighter. But there axe pea. a $2.60 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine made use of the gratuitous service o Guarcl were to pass. and beans. This year I managed ti Co., Brockville, Ont. some of the leading advertising men, Reports were current that Frank A. store up one pound of beans and tw which service has been immensely'IVlunsey, owner of the New York pounds of rice. Unfortunately al profitable to the Government. The Press, and William C. Refek, owner three pounds are gone, and witl GEN. SMUTS' CONQUEST. British Treasury has used the same of the Sun, are contemplating a men- them the only piece of --good butte) methods adopted by high-class mer- ger' of their properties. we had. By right we ought to have der their own fire, so that our men did not know the rush was coming till the enemy was dropping hand gren- ades into their trench. For this suc- cess about a thousand Germans were killed by German guns. -France Will Not Fail Usambura Described as the Genn of enntile houses to sell then goods and Five million dollars was added to ono pound of butter a week for tin they have succeeded beyond expecte- the fortifications bill as it passed the four of u5 but we dont German East Africa. • , ' • get an ounce tion. A very large amount of the Blouse at Washington, to be used for It is all very well writing to Vorwart. Wilhemstal, the capital of the Us- five-year Treasury bonds has been sold purchase and manufacture of moult- about a nice bit of butter. All I ear ambara Highlands, was occupied 'a to the working classes. The lowest tarn, field and seige cannon, cook with my meal is the butter card short time ago by General Smuts, and denomination of these bonds is £L Private Clifford Green, Co. F., of I wonder how it tastes. Do you n- ag the enemy have abandoned its which is sold as advertised for 15s. Gd. Dover, Me,, after being summoned to member the time when there wend seaport, Tanga, it would appear that the whole of this region, the most set- tled and most prosperous part of German East Africa, will shortly be in undisputed possession of the Bri- tish. Its healthy climate, picturesque valleys and mountains, and luxuriant vegetation attracted attention to Us- ambera from the first establishment of German rule, and its nearness to the coast rendered it easily access- ible. To -day it poslesses scores of thriving plantations, pleasant and well-built towns, and excellent roads. Its European population is about 3,000 Bordered east and west by arid Schub ?covered steppes, north by open country, and south by dense jungle, the highlands form an oasis in the wilderness. Extending southeast and northwest for 75 miles, they vary in breadth from 1 to 45 miles.' The hills rise tbruptly 1,500 feet to 1,700 feet from the surrounding plain, and the most lofty peaks are over 7,600 feet above the sea. The valleys, deep and narrow, through which rush pic- turesque torrents, and the hillsides, are under cultivation ; the native population is dense, and long before the comir(g of the white man they had flourishing and extensive shambas. Soon after the proclamation of the German protectorate a site in one of the south-western valleys was chosen as a Government post. Named Wil- hemstal, in honor of the Kaiser, it has grown into a considerable town, with fine public and private buildings. for which amount the investor obtains the face value of the bond at maturity; or, in other words, he makes a profit of 4s. Gd.,. or a little over 29% in the five years, which represents nearly 6% annually. "It is caleulated that 70% of the war revenue is contributed by payers of income tax and other direct taxa- tion, that is by persons whose in- come is above $800 per annum, and only 30% by those with smaller in- comes. The entire taxation, direct and indirect, last year amounted: to about £860,000,000. " Of the 06,000,000 daily war ex- penditures of England about 40% is coming back to the country in wages and eidpendlitures for war supplies ; about 40% is money loaned to' the Allies, the colonies, India, and other dependencies, so.that of the total a- mount only about 20% is an actual charge against the Government" Vigilant Fido. The man 'getting his hail• cut no- ticed that the barber's clog, which. wr Such methods may give an insight into the reasons of the continued tre- mendous attacks at Verdun. Probab- ly the robab-lythe leaders have their doubt as to their ever entering that city, and sure- ly they know that, should they take, it, they would have gained no decisive advantage, that the French would fall back on prepared stronger lines. But their know that their men are mere. matter in their hands;• they do not shrink from hurling them into the fire • for the sake of keeping up the fur- nace, a furnace where both armies are melting—though not at the same rate. They know that time is against Ger- many, that she cannot afford to wait end simply defend the territories which she. won at the first blow by the methods we know. Their lash,aim must be slaughter for the sake ,of slaughter—continuous and wholesale slaughter in which it does not matter to them if their men fall by hundreds of •thousands, as long as. the French fall by fifties of thousands. They reckon that they will feed and in- crease the furnace till the' neutrals raise a cry of horrorand try to in- tervene, or till French • sensibility end humanity at the back cannot stand any more the sight of French man- hood gradually withering in that fire.. But France knows that if her will failed her she would be doomed. She knows 'from her previous esipeniences his company, walked 150 miles from Elm Stream through the woods be- fore he could strike a railroad. A protest against the promiscous removal of tonsils from children was voiced -by Dr. Royal Copeland, of New York , in a paper read before the American Institute of Homoeopathy at Baltimore. • IC. D. Taliaferro, aged 18, son of R. M. Taliaferro, general agent of the Norfolk and Western Railway at Yynchburg, Va., committed suicide when Miss Bertha Pfeister refused to elope with him. GERMAN SOLDIERS HOMESICK. Write Their Letters From the Front in Melancholy Tones. The " Kolnischo Zeitung " remarks that it has been ]generally observed that numerous letters from German soldiers at the front are couched in melancholic tones, giving to friends and relatives the' impression that the writer is sad, and filling the hearts of lying on the floor beside the chair, those at home with uneasiness. had 'his eyes fixed on his master at And yet, after exaet investigation, work. ' "Nice dog, that," said the customer. "He is, sir." "He seems -Very fond of watching you cut hair." "It ain't that, sir," explained the barber. "You see, sometimes I make a mistake and snip off a little bit of a customer's ear." mese Minard's Liniment in the heave ARMY GROWS POTATOES. British Soldiers Planting, Between Camp Huts. The army has started to grow its own potatoes. ' Instructions have been sent, or are being sent, from the War Office to every command, indi- cating the lines which should be :fol- lowed, says a story from British army headquarters. Military requirements are very large and little more than half the usual supplies of potatoes are coming into the markets, with the result that pre- war prices to the public are nearly doubled. At one camp in Surrey digging operations began last week, and the seed potatoes are to be planted in a few clays in rows between the huts. A number of men are being told off each day for digging, and others are being asked to help in spare time. At a Camp in Yorkshire potato grow- ing began some weeks ago. It is un- derstood that instructions will soon be issued for the growing of vegetables, Lek for 'Minara's +aad tato as 0ther Different. Redd—An automobile is so differ- ent from 'a horse. Greene—Why, of course. "You see, a horse goes faster when he's going home than when going away from home." "Well, doesn't an automobile?" "Oh, no; you see, an automobile of- ten has to be towed home_"—_ says the " Kolnisehe," it has been proved that the writers of these let- ters are in excellent spirits. What, then, is the explanation ? The writ- ers are simply afflicted with home- sickness. They are thinking of their homes. They do not wish to make those at home sad or cheerless, but so long as they have a pen in their hands they see their home life swim before their eyes, and hear the chil- dren's talk, they see the friendly faces of wives, parents, friends, they see the sunshine round their homes, add a longing for the old life and peace comes over them. It is this that casts a shadow over their surroundings, and this shadow finds its expression in their letters. As a matter of fact, says the " Kol- nische," they do not know what they have written. After they have writ- ten and sealed their letters they for- get all --about them, and they wonder when they hear from home, evhy their friends are all so anxious about them, That is the explanation. It is only home -sickness. On the Safe Side. .Zonas and his 'wife were sealed at the dining room table perusing the evening papers when the doorbell, rang. Jones arose to answer it, when his wife said: "Let me ]tide those umbrellas be- fore you let them in." "Why, do you think. somebel y ev'' steal them?" asked Jones. "No," replied his wife. "Some o might recognize them." sausages ?" Simply Ferocious. "Yes." said the cynical old sea cap- tain, "when I was shipwrecked i r South America I came across a,tribt of wild women who had no tongues.'' "Good gracious]" exclaimed a lis toner. "How could they talk?" "They couldn't," was the reply "That was what made them wild." 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